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No hope so bright but is the beginning of its own fulfilment.

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It is the duty of men to judge men only by their actions. Our faculties furnish us with no means of arriving at the motive, the character, the secret self. We call the tree good from its fruits, and the man, from his works.

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Everywhere I am hindered of meeting God in my brother, because he has shut his own temple doors and recites fables merely of his brother's, or his brother's brother's God.

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Then climate is a great impediment to idle persons; we often resolve to give up the care of the weather, but still we regard the clouds and the rain.

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It is better to be a thorn in the side of a friend than an echo.

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The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.

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The perception of the comic is a tie of sympathy with other men.

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When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost-work , but the solidest thing we know.

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The essence of friendship is entireness, a total magnanimity and trust. It must not surmise or provide for infirmity. It treats its object as a god, that it might deify both.

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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. Football is four 15-minute quarters. Plus timeouts and commercials.

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Headwinds are sore vexations and the more passengers the sorer.

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Consistency is the bugbear that frightens little minds.

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There is one other reason for dressing well, namely that dogs respect it, and will not attack you in good clothes.

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Do your work, but do your thing.

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Solitude is impractical and yet society is fatal.

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The greatest meliorator of the world is selfish, huckstering Trade.

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My evening visitors, if they cannot see the clock should find the time in my face.

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Every really able man, in whatever direction he works - a man of large affairs, an inventor, a statesman, an orator, a poet, a painter - if you talk sincerely with him, considers his work, however much admired, as far short of what it should be. What is this Better, this flying Ideal, but the perpetual promise of his Creator?

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The President proclaims war, and those Senators who dissent are not those who know better, but those who can afford to...Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors.

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The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men around to his opinion twenty years later.

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